The Glades: Cancelled Next or Renewed for Season Five?

by Trevor Kimball, August 30, 2013

Season four of The Glades concluded this week but the show hasn’t been renewed yet. Will it return for season five or will it be cancelled instead?

For those who haven’t seen it, The Glades follows a cocky Chicago detective (Matt Passmore) who moves to South Florida in hopes of finding a more relaxing way of life. He finds instead that he’s busier than ever. Others in the dramedy’s cast include Kiele Sanchez, Carlos Gómez, Uriah Shelton, Jordan Wall, and Michelle Hurd.

Season four of the show averaged 2.59 million viewers, down by 14% when compared to season three’s average (3.01 million). It’s the lowest-rated of A&E‘s three scripted dramas but hit a new high with its recent finale and an audience of 3.41 million.

While The Glades was the series to help A&AMP;E establish itself as a channel with scripted content, things aren’t looking too good for the show’s future. The ratings are down and the show is produced by Fox Television Studios so the cable channel doesn’t have a financial stake in its future.

According to Deadline, the show’s outlook isn’t bright but A&AMP;E hasn’t cancelled it yet.

After four seasons, there are 49 episodes of The Glades. That’s not enough for a syndication package but it might be close enough to give Fox incentive to make some kind of special deal to keep it going — either with A&AMP;E or another outlet. It would help if there were an appropriate Fox-owned channel but there isn’t.

For now, we’ll have to wait and see. If the show is cancelled, hopefully the producers will tell fans how the fourth season cliffhanger would have been resolved.

What do you think? Would you like to see a fifth season renewal or is it time for The Glades to be cancelled instead?

Finally a show I really enjoyed, I like crime/police shows, this one had everything to keep your attention, from relationships, great team work portrait, and just the right dose of humor/sarcasm that was not cutting, and all this without the blood and gore of all the other crime shows.
I do not need to see the gruesome details of an autopsy, or the victims chest cavity open wide.
I never saw it on A&E, I started watching it recently via Netflix, but am sorry to see it discontinued, I might have actually turned on the regular TV after finding shows like this.

I simply love this show. Can’t believe you would cancel it now. You might only have 3 million viewers but I think that would be 3 million viewers who would not get involved in another series on this channel if you leave us hanging like this. PLEASE BRING BACK FOR SEASON FIVE………..

Please have a season 5! Just watched the last episode of season 4! You can not leave us hanging! We have to have a happy ending! Please! Please! Make a season 5! Give us the wedding and the happy ending!!!!

PLEASE, PLEASE, P L E A S E bring back The Glades !!! Excellent show!!
I love this show!!! I never missed an episode, even while I was going thru chemo fighting cancer for the 3rd time. I always would look forward to the start of the new season. You can’t just leave it hanging!! Jim HAS to live so he can marry his soulmate!!! Please bring it back. Please!! Thank you.